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1. COURSE: GLOBAL STUDIES II
YEAR: 2015
University of South East- Asia
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2. Chapter 4 Women’s Issues
UNIT 2 FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
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3. As explained in the previous unit, female
circumcision is one violence against
women that is still prevailing in some
Muslim countries in the world.
It is a violation against the sexuality of
women as well as their human rights.
The reasons for female circumcision
according to those who practise it:
 To reduce female sexual desires
 To remain faithful to their husband
 It enhances fertility
 Protection from infection
 Enhances hygiene
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4. Gender inequality in Theoretical
Perspectives
Why are women subjugated to men?
Why is there discrimination against
women?
Here are two theories to explain it:
 Childbirth and Social Experiences
 Warfare and Physical Strength
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5. Childbirth and Social
Experiences
 In early human history, life was short and
to reproduce the human group many
children had to be born
 Women get pregnant, carry a child for
nine months, give birth, nurse the child,
therefore had limited activities for a
considerable part of their lives
 Men took on the heavier burden in life,
hunting large animals, they are the ones
who control weapons needed for fighting
against other tribes, the ones who risked
their lives.
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6. Warfare and Physical
Strength
 In prehistoric times, each small human
group was threatened by other warring
groups
 Men had to fight enemies in
dangerous, hand-to-hand combat.
 Men became warriors because they
are stronger than women and more
capable of skills needed to fight
 Women were regarded as rewards for
men who would become warriors
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7. Gender Inequality in the United
States
FIGHTING BACK: THE RISE OF
FEMINISM
Feminism- the philosophy that men and
women should be politically,
economically, and socially equal, and
organized activity on behalf of this
principle
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8. Gender inequality is worldwide.
However, in the U.S., feminists founded
the National Women’s Party in 1916.
What they did:
 They threw a picket line around the
White House for six months
Result:
 The pickets were arrested; hundreds
went to prison
Suffragists – these are the leaders of
feminist movements (because they are
protesting for equal suffrage: the right to
vote)
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9. Gender Relations in the
Workplace
CHANGES IN THE WORKPLACE
Since 1890, the U.S. government has tracked the
percentages of men and women in the work
force.
At that year (1890), about four of every five
workers were men and that with each passing
year women have made up a larger proportion of
the U.S. labor force.
During WWII, however, there was a considerate
increase among women in the work force
because they worked in ammunition factories
manufacturing bullets and bombs.
After WWII, they returned to their usual routine of
being homemakers.
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10. Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment against women is a
perpetual problem because men look
at women as frail sex objects that they
can easily manipulate.
Men always thought that it is not a
serious matter and most people tend
to attribute men’s gestures against
women as something “normal and
natural”.
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11. Sexual Harassment
Case in point:
At the hallway of Las Vegas Hilton Hotel
during a Navy pilots’ convention, the
men harassed the ladies who passed
by.
When the women complained to their
superiors, they were just taken for
granted.
When formal enquiry was held, their
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